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121 5th Avenue, PMB #150
Brooklyn, New York 11217
About DDDB
Our coalition consists of 21 community organizations and
there are 51 community organizations formally
aligned in opposition to the Ratner plan.

DDDB is a volunteer-run organization. We have over 5,000
subscribers to our email newsletter, and 7,000 petition
signers. Over 800 volunteers have registered with DDDB
to form our various teams, task-forces and committees
and we have over 150 block captains. We have a 20 person
volunteer legal team of local lawyers supplementing our
retained attorneys.

We are funded entirely by individual donations from the community at large
and through various fundraising events we and supporters have organized.

From the Times
regarding the "collapse" of a a 200 foot parapet on the Ward Bakery Building owned
by Forest City Ratner:

...“Our focus is on the safety of the community and we are
doing everything in our power to maintain it,” [Ratner spokesman] Mr.
[Loren] Riegelhaupt said. He said the removal of the [protective sidewalk] shed
was necessary to allow access to sewer lines under the sidewalk that the city
will require to be blocked before demolition of the building is begun...
(emphasis and clarifications added)

Really? If community safety is their focus and they are doing everything
in their power, why didn't they replace the sidewalk sheds after the sewer
work, and before asbestos abatement started?